On Thursday, March 6, 2014 at 8:17:38 AM UTC-8, gerberk wrote:

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. EMI Classics.

"If I could hear only one opera for the rest of my life, it would have to be Die Meistersinger,
and so if I were sent to Siberia with only one record album, it would be
the album here reviewed.
Hearing it has been a joy, a profound and moving experience."

Hans Sachs - Theo Adam
Vett Pogner - Karl Ridderbusch
Kunz Vogelgezang - Eberhard Büchner
Konrad Nachtigall - Horst Lunow
Sixtus Beckmesser - Geraint Evans
Fritz Kothner - Zoltan Kélémen
Walther von Stolzing - René Kollo
David - Peter Schreier
Eva - Helen Donath
Magdalene - Ruth Hesse

Chor der Staatsoper Dresden - Chor des Leipziger Rundfunks
Staatskapelle Dresden

Herbert von Karajan

(Recent Youtube upload):

Wagner's Meistersinger, Salzburg 1974: Karajan/Ridderbusch/Kollo/Janowitz/Schreier/Leib/Hendrikx

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